[Patches] [ python-Patches-1631394 ] sre module has misleading docs
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Patches item #1631394, was opened at 2007-01-09 11:12
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Category: Modules
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Tom Lynn (tlynn)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: sre module has misleading docs
Initial Comment:
>>> help(sre)
...
"$" Matches the end of the string.
...
\Z Matches only at the end of the string.
...
M MULTILINE "^" matches the beginning of lines as well as the string.
"$" matches the end of lines as well as the string.
The docs for "$" are misleading - it actually matches in newline-specific ways which the module's built-in docs don't hint at. The MULTILINE docs don't clarify this.
I'd also like to see "from sre import __doc__" added to the end of re.py; lack of "help(re)" is a bigger problem than having slightly wrong auto-generated docs for the re module itself.
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